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Comment by ScottWhigham | Hacker News Reader

Among other things, there's just something about submitting a resume to "jobs@youporn.com" that smacks of desperation

Desperation? I can understand not applying because you're morally apposed to pron or something, but if you look past the video content it's actually a pretty interesting gig for web hackers.

millions of page views, tons of data and metrics to track... damn, it has more interesting problems than most startups.

eh. i'd say attitudes such as this one is what perpetuates the problem of porn being an unpleasant ghetto. if it were allowed to be respectable, it could clean up its act.

I thought you gain respect by cleaning up your act, but in any case I think porn has become much more accepted over the years.

i'd say that's fairly impossible for porn producers to do right now. there's a huge negative stigma attached. that encourages people to use pseudonyms in the industry, which fosters an environment of secrecy, which leads to deception, etc.

if people could work in porn without besmirching their reputations forever, THEN the industry could start cleaning up its act.

While I will definitely concede that there are porn companies that are "ghetto", (the AdultFriendFinder/Penthouse discrimination debacle comes to mind: http://gawker.com/373445/fired-employee-plots-discrimination... ) most large mainstream porn companies are actually very professional. I have friends that work at one of the largest and it's the most professional environment I've ever seen. Everyone is hard at work, slackers aren't tolerated and they have a constant drive to do things faster, better, more efficiently. Competition in porn is fierce, especially at the top. To stay at the top you need to work hard constantly because everyone else is as well.

let's say i was looking for a new text editor for my mac. i could type the appropriate terms into a search box, find myself presented with several good alternatives, and buy something in a matter of minutes.

now let's say i try that same experiment with porn. i have a specific type of thing in mind, type the necessary search terms, and quickly find myself drowning in unsavory-looking link farms, deceptive advertising, phishing and spyware attempts, and skeevy-looking pages that make me never want to contemplate sex again for the rest of my life.

this is why i say that porn is "ghetto." i'm sure there are hard-working companies in the industry. but if this is the state of the art, those reputable purveyors are quickly going to get pulled down to everybody else's level.

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